Originally Posted by Fluff

We're not really. Just average.

Only 8 teams have won the World Cup and England is one of them. France only managed to win it in '98 when they hosted it, Spain only won it recently too (2010). The Netherlands have never won it.

We have had lots of world class players. We punch below our weight in competitions but we are also hurt by competing as individual teams (Scotland/England/Wales/Northern Ireland). No other country in the world does that. A UK team would have won more than one World Cup

Also we didn't even enter the first few World Cups.